Frank Mugisha

Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)
Kampala, Uganda

Mr Mugisha is a Ugandan LGBT advocate and Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, who has won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize 2011 for his activism. Mugisha is one of the most prominent advocates for LGBT rights in Uganda. He has recently joined the new Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia University As the inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellow.